Fish 'n' Bread in Valheim: Recipe, Stats, and the Anglerfish Bait Problem
A cooked Fish 'n' Bread restores 30 health and 90 stamina for 1,800 seconds — 30 minutes — at 3 hp healed per tick. It's a Mistlands-tier food, made in two stages across two different stations, and its ingredient list means the bottleneck isn't the oven — it's catching the fish. This guide covers the full stat block, the exact recipe and cook timing, and the wiki's own note on why the required Anglerfish used to be far harder to get than it is now.
Fish 'n' Bread at a Glance
The wiki's infobox gives a full stat block for the cooked item:
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Health | +30 |
| Stamina | +90 |
| Duration | 1,800 seconds (30 minutes) |
| Healing | 3 hp per tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack size | 10 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
| Made in | Stone oven |
In-game item description, quoted directly from the source: "Bounty from both land and sea."
The stamina-to-health ratio is worth noting: 90 stamina against 30 health works out to 90 ÷ 30 = 3 stamina points for every point of health — a food built for characters who need to keep swinging a pickaxe or sprinting through Mistlands terrain, not one built to tank hits. Teleportable status means a batch cooked at a home base carries through a portal without a boat run, and the stack of 10 at 1.0 weight each makes it cheap to haul a full supply.
The Recipe: Two Stations, Two Steps
Fish 'n' Bread isn't a one-station recipe. The source is explicit that the uncooked item comes first: "Uncooked fish 'n' Bread is produced in a Food preparation table with: Anglerfish, Bread dough." So the ingredient list is:
- Anglerfish x1
- Bread dough x2
Only then does it go in the oven. Quoted directly: "Fish n' Bread is produced by cooking Uncooked Fish n' Bread in a Stone oven for 50 seconds. If left in the oven for 100 seconds, it will burn and turn into Coal." That gives a burn margin you can plan around: 100 − 50 = 50 seconds between "done" and "ruined." Leave a batch unattended for less than a minute past ready and it's still fine; forget about it much longer than that and it becomes Coal instead of food.
The facts here don't cover Bread dough's own recipe, so if that ingredient isn't already stocked, check its own requirements before committing oven time to a batch of Fish 'n' Bread.
Catching the Anglerfish: Before and After the Fishing Update
The single ingredient most likely to slow this recipe down is the Anglerfish, and the wiki's Notes section addresses that directly. Quoted in full: "Prior to the fishing update, acquiring Anglerfish required a multi-step crafting process to obtain the correct bait. With the process simplified, Anglerfish are still time-intensive to catch, but perhaps not as prohibitive as before."
Two things follow from that wording. First, the bait chain used to be a genuine multi-step crafting problem — the source doesn't spell out those exact steps, so treat "multi-step" as the extent of what's confirmed rather than guessing at the specific old recipe. Second, even after simplification, Anglerfish are explicitly still described as "time-intensive to catch" — the update removed a crafting bottleneck, not a fishing-time one. Budget accordingly: the oven step is fast at 50 seconds, but the fishing trip that feeds it is the part the wiki itself flags as the slow one.
The Duration in Context
The infobox lists duration as 1,800 seconds. Converted to a unit you'd actually plan a Mistlands excursion around: 1,800 ÷ 60 = 30 minutes — long enough to cover a substantial trip without needing to re-eat partway through.
The healing rate is listed as 3 hp per tick, but the source doesn't specify how long a single tick lasts in seconds, so the total hit points restored across the full 30-minute buff can't be computed from this data alone — that figure is undocumented here and shouldn't be estimated from a tick length sourced elsewhere. The infobox likewise carries no buy/sell price field and no secondary status effect beyond the stats already listed above, so both should be treated as unconfirmed rather than assumed absent.
Practical tips
- 30 health, 90 stamina, 1,800 seconds (30 min) — the full stat line, straight from the infobox.
- 90 ÷ 30 = 3 stamina points per health point — a stamina-leaning food, not a tank food.
- Recipe: Anglerfish x1 + Bread dough x2 at a Food preparation table, then 50 seconds in a Stone oven.
- 100 − 50 = 50 seconds of safety margin before a finished batch burns into Coal.
- The bait bottleneck is gone, but Anglerfish are still "time-intensive to catch" per the wiki's own wording — plan the fishing trip, not just the oven time.
- Tick length in seconds, buy/sell price, and any secondary effect aren't covered by this source — treat all three as unconfirmed until checked elsewhere.
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Conclusion
Fish 'n' Bread is a Mistlands-tier food made in two steps — Anglerfish x1 + Bread dough x2 at a Food preparation table, then 50 seconds in a Stone oven (with a 50-second margin, from 100 − 50, before it burns into Coal). Cooked, it delivers +30 health, +90 stamina, 1,800 seconds (30 minutes, from 1,800 ÷ 60) of duration, and 3 hp of healing per tick — a stamina-leaning ratio of 3:1 over health. The wiki's own note makes clear the real bottleneck isn't the oven: Anglerfish bait used to require a multi-step crafting process, and while that's now simplified, the fish itself is still explicitly described as time-intensive to catch. The tick length behind the 3 hp/tick figure, any buy/sell pricing, and a possible secondary effect are all undocumented in this source and worth checking separately before planning a precise healing budget around them.
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